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All the Fall Beauty Trends You Should Know About

It's not too late to master this season's most stylish trends. Even better? This autumn, they're easier than ever. From clean, velvety skin to messy ponytails, simple manicures, and fail-proof eye makeup. Get ready to fall ahead beautifully.

Skin: Completely Clean

How: Go for a lightweight tinted moisturizer rather than a chalky foundation—we like Eve Lom's new Radiance Perfected Tinted Moisturizer, which pretty much melts right into the skin. Stipple it on with a synthetic brush for the most natural finish.

Skin: Add a Flush

Where: At Ralph Lauren (pictured), Diane Von Furstenberg, and Calvin Klein, that very same velvet-soft skin was accented with a dusting of color—rose, peony, and peach hues preferred—right along the cheekbones.

Skin: Add a Flush

How: Blushes sans sparkles or shimmer tend to look the most believable. Try Tom Ford Cheek Color in Frantic Pink, which is loaded with emollients so it stays put like a cream formula, but without the harsh lines gels sometimes leave behind.

Eyes: Metallic

Where: At Emporio Armani, Donna Karan (pictured), and Issey Miyake, sparks of luminance along the eyes—either under the bottom lashes, along the inner corners, or right up to the brows—created light-catching dimension.

Eyes: Extreme Mascara

Where: Remember when the whole point of mascara was to look completely #iwokeuplikethis? Not so much this season, where at shows like Gucci, Prada, and Rochas (pictured), the mascara was thick, spidery, and totally obvious.

Eyes: Extreme Mascara

How: A strip of false lashes on the top or bottom is never a bad idea. Just be sure to blend it in with generous swipes of a volumizing jet-black mascara like Charlotte Tilbury Full Fat Lashes 5 Star, which has a deep grooved brush for maximum separation.

Eyes: Crisp Color

How: Unless you wet colored powder and apply it with a firm brush, it's easy to get a watercolor wash, rather than precise shapes. Instead, Make Up For Ever's Aqua Liner has a paintbrush tip to help you sweep pigment on with accuracy.

Nails: Line Drive

Where: This season, no one drew tiny tuxedos or mini cats on their nails. Instead manicurists kept things straight and to the point: A single stripe of red on a nude nail at Prabal Gurung (pictured), off-center red, white, and blue lines at Nonoo, and full-on graph paper grids at Ann Yee.

Nails: Bare it All

Where: It wasn't that manicurists got lazy by not coating the nail completely. It's that they got inventive. At Lela Rose (pictured), nails were painted diagonally with a glowy gray. At Zimmerman, triangles at the base of the nail were left exposed, and at Emerson, sweeps of opposing color lined the vertical edges, while the center stayed free and clear.

Nails: Border Patrol

Where: French manicures are so late '90s. Kind of. At Tadashi Shoji (pictured), tips and moons were painted a glimmering gold. At Honor manicurists flipped the look upside by painting red moons on a creamy pink base. And finally, at Band of Outsiders, a nude nail was traced on all edges with a white trim.

Hair: Artistic Updos

Where: Maybe it's all those Pinterest tutorials, but this season, hairstylist got creative, with interwoven braids at Givenchy (pictured), basket-woven ponytails at Fendi, and updos with long fabric skeins at Chanel.

Hair: Careless Hair, Don't Care

Where: On the other end of the spectrum from the museum-worthy sculptures were messy buns (Marchesa, pictured), rumpled waves (Thakoon), and hang-on-by-a-strand ponys (Stella McCartney). A.K.A. styles best perfected with a pillow and a long night's sleep.

Hair: Careless Hair, Don't Care

How: We're not going to give you instructions on how to look like you didn't do your hair. But what we will say is that when your style isn't super-fussy, a blast of a flexible hold hairspray will keep it from falling completely flat. (L'Oreal Elnett never fails.)